Thougts from Cup-of-Joe: Nutrition

In order to survive the aforementioned "stage triathlon" we began to think about what you would need to eat each day. This brought us back to the "gel chugging contest" and nutrition in general. We decided that it would be difficult to consume enough food while swimming, biking, and/or running to meet this need. So, we thought that the best solution would be to increase the nutritional/caloric density of the things we already eat. So bars, gels, beverages, bites, and blasts... peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chocolate milk, coffee, locopops, funfetti cake...

The "obvious" was "gel shots" for coffee... like the flavor shots that they have in most places (someone was eating a gel while drinking coffee already). Then we moved on to "PowerBar icecream"... basically any PowerBar bar chopped up in icecream with a "gel swirl". This motivated the following, combinatorial products:

• The "new" PB&J: 2 peanut butter Performance bars (the bread with peanut butter included) and strawberry banana gel (the jelly)... a totally synthetic sandwich!
• The "new" Icecream Sandwich: 2 chocolate Performance bars and a vanilla gel OR 2 cookies 'n cream Performance bars and a chocolate gel... solves the whole melting problem!
• The "Performance Gel" bar: kind of like a Nutri-Grain Cereal Bar, except replace the "fruit center" with an energy gel and the "whole grain outer crust" with a performance bar (we came up with chocolate - latte, milk chocolate brownie - raspberry, oatmeal raisin- vanilla, apple cinnamon - green apple, banana - tangerine, and vanilla crisp - strawberry banana)
• The "epoxy" gel: basically just two gels... but you "mix" them together like 2-part epoxy (I won't enumerate the possibilities here)

We also decided that the new "seasonal flavor" for GU should be maple syrup! #20